The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca

366 Pages·2019·11.184 MB·English

by  Nile Green

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The Persianate World

The Persianate World
The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca
Edited by
Nile Green
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© 2019 by Nile Green
Suggested citation: Green, Nile (ed.). The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a
Eurasian Lingua Franca. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.64
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Green, Nile, editor.
Title: The Persianate world : the frontiers of a Eurasian lingua franca /
edited by Nile Green.
Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] |
Includes bibliographical references and index. | This work is licensed
under a Creative Commons [CC-BY-NC-ND] license. To view a copy
of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018044520 (print) | LCCN 2018050251 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780520972100 () | ISBN 9780520300927 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Persian language—History. | Lingua francas—Eurasia.
Classification: LCC PK6225 (ebook) | LCC PK6225 .P48 2019 (print) |
DDC 491/.5509—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018044520
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Dedicated to the memory of
Marshall G. S. Hodgson (1922–68)
on the fiftieth anniversary of his death

Contents
List of Maps and Illustrations ix
A Note on Transliteration xi
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: The Frontiers of the Persianate World (ca. 800–1900) 1
Nile Green
Part I. Pan-Eurasian Expansions, ca. 1400–1600
1. Imperial Ambitions, Mystical Aspirations: Persian Learning in the
Ottoman World 75
Murat Umut Inan
2. Persian at the Court or in the Village? The Elusive Presence of Persian
in Bengal 93
Thibaut d’Hubert
3. The Uses of Persian in Imperial China: Translating Practices at the
Ming Court 113
Graeme Ford
4. Persian and Turkic from Kazan to Tobolsk: Literary Frontiers in
Muslim Inner Asia 131
Devin DeWeese
Part II. The Constraints of Cosmopolitanism, ca. 1600–1800
5. Marking Boundaries and Building Bridges: Persian Scholarly
Networks in Mughal Punjab 159
Purnima Dhavan
6. A Lingua Franca in Decline? The Place of Persian in Qing China 175
David Brophy